After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
Kazuo IshiguroThere was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape, this music. I was sort of dancing with my eyes closed and you saw me.' '...yes, I remember that occasion. I still think about it from time to time.' 'That's funny, so do I.
Kazuo IshiguroAnd if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.
Kazuo IshiguroIt had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
Kazuo IshiguroThere comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.
Kazuo IshiguroWhen we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.
Kazuo Ishiguro